V.M. (Vanessa) Strike

Vanessa Strike is an Assistant Professor in Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam School of Management. She received her PhD from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include Family Business, Entrepreneurship, Governance, Comparative Ownership Structures, and CSR. In particular, she focuses on the challenges of governance and decision-making within the family firm, and advising to the family firm. She has published in the Journal of International Business, Family Business Review, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and has published teaching cases and teaching notes on family business and entrepreneurship. Her research was also recently profiled in RSM Insights. Vanessa's dissertation on family firms and governance was a finalist at the Academy of Management conference in 2009: Mindful Governance: The Role of the Most Trusted Advisor in Family-Owned Firms. Recently, she received the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Award for best research paper at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management Family Business Conference, and the Outstanding Discipline Award for Entrepreneurship from Ivey Publishing that recognizes the top selling cases in each faculty discipline world-wide for her family business case: Ganong Bros. Limited.

• Strike, V.M. (2010). The Role of the Most Trusted Advisor in Decision-Making in Family-Owned Firms. International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Award for best research paper at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management: Workshop on Family Firms Management Research: Barcelona, Spain. Wetenschappelijk.

• Articles (3)
  • Strike, V.M. (2012). Advising the Family Firm: Reviewing the Past to Build the Future. Family Business Review, 25(2), 156-177.
  • Strike, V.M., Gao, J. & Bansal, P. (2006). Being good while being bad: social responsibility and international diversification of US firms. Journal of International Business Studies, 37(6), 850-862.
  • Strike, V.M., Gao, J. & Bansal, P. (2006). The (Ir)responsibility of Multinational Enterprises. In Academy of Management Annual Conference Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management.

• Book contributions
  • Strike, V.M. & Morse, E. (2011). Ganong Bros. Limited, Teaching Case. In Strategic Management, 1st Canadian Edition. Pearson Education.

• Doctoral thesis
  • Strike, V.M.. Mindful Governance: The Role of the Most Trusted Advisor in Family-Owned Firms. University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada: University of Western Ontario). Prom./coprom.: C. Rerup & E. Morse.

• Editorial position (1)

  Journal	Family Business Review
  Role	Editorial Board

• Organisation membership (1)

  Organisation	Academy of Management
  Role	Member

• ERIM Awards (1)

  Name	Fellowship - ERIM early career talent programme
  Year	2008
  Website